(Via someone liking someone screenshotting a Washington Free Beacon piece quoting the Atlantic piece in question.)
This 2014 video of an Al Arabiya journalist in Gaza realizing rockets are being fired from downstairs, was, according to some, the same media-and-Hamas building that was hit yesterday.
Not sure if that's confirmed. Either way, it's informative.
Back to the present: an Obama administration NSC spokesman (and critic of the Israeli strike on the building) appears to have spoken to someone in the building who confirmed Hamas's presence there.
I forgot about the ability to hide Tweets. From time to time, some bad tweets appear in my replies, but I've almost never hidden one.
I'm now hiding a reply that passed off a headline from a satirical site as real, to suggest that AP=Hamas, since too many people have retweeted.
The info in the first post above obviously needs to be acknowledged and grappled with. AP has much to answer for, even beyond these incidents. Read the whole article by @MattiFriedman
. Share it.
But fake a headline saying AP reporters are Hamas fighters isn't the way. Stop.
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1/ If you want any authority to lecture us about war crimes, @iamjohnoliver, then
* don't ignore the fact that every rocket Hamas launches is a war crime—you do;
* don't mischaracterize the concept of "proportionality" in war as meaning proportional causalities—it doesn't;
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* don't claim “destroying a civilian residence” is proof of a war crime—that's also not how international law works, and if you don't know how it works, don't pretend to.
* don't purport to be combatting both-sides-ism but ignore that one side—Hamas—is targeting civilians.
3/ don't pretend civilian casualties among Palestinians disproves that Israel is targeting militants;
* don't pretend "real estate disputes" don't involve evictions—that's usually what happens when someone chooses not to pay rent, as is the case with the four Palestinian families
1/ Journalists being angry about something that feels close to home, as with cops who feel angry about something close to home, isn't a legitimate excuse to go professionally rogue.
2/ The IDF gave an explanation for the strike. To ignore it, or worse, effectively deny it, while purporting to describe the army's "real" motivation is journalistic malpractice.
3/ Israeli intelligence has proven once or twice before that it'ss able to correctly ascertain where things are, even things that are very far away. The building in question, a large office complex that also houses media offices, is not very far away.
It is (or it should be) surprising that a former Jerusalem bureau chief for the @nytimes missed the documentary's flagrantly manipulated quote, which prompted a PBS review. jta.org/2021/03/30/uni…
I'm actually just catching up on the details of this, and am pretty stunned by the degree to which the quote in Zinshtein's documentary was spliced and glued together. It's brazen. The word "including" is taken from the top to splice together two faraway passages.
Updated to highlight self-contradiction. If
a) Israel "controls the movement of goods" and "approves or doesn't approve the entrance of…drugs" into Gaza; and
b) 20,000 doses of vaccine were imported into Gaza; then
c) can't be true that “refuses…to distribute vaccines” to Gaza.
Of course, Israel doesn't control Gaza. It doesn't "acknowledge" it effectively controls Gaza, as the author suggests, and it doesn't, as she claims, control what goes in and out.
The Forward's Op-Ed by Sari Bashi might be the most dishonest account if Israel's vaccine program in the mainstream press. camera.org/article/forwar…
2/ How did @jdforward reply to the complaint that the article falsely claims that Israel bases its distribution of the vaccine on ethnicity, and that the ethnic group eligible for the vaccine are the Jews? @rudoren
Here's how:
3/ Editors told me the piece clearly states Israel vaccinates its Arab residents. No, it doesn't.
Worse, *after* the concerns were raised, they added another sentence purporting that Israel only gets vaccines for Jews: "Because I am Jewish, the authorities bought me…vaccine."
1/ Remember last year's letter fiasco in the Guardian? Well, here we go again. Let's take a look at who signed a recent letter in the paper that attacks the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
2/ The letter in question, published by a prominent newspaper, seeks to redefine antisemitism. It is signed by people who:
* Openly charge Jews with disloyalty to their countries
* Say Jews manipulate the world through a “Jewish media machine”
3/ * Accuse Jews with “whining” and “lying” about the Holocaust while behaving worse than the Nazis
* Describe a 1929 anti-Jewish massacre that killed over a hundred Jews as “resistance” by "martyrs"
* And the murderer of a four-year-old Jewish girl as a “martyr”